It has never been God's intention that we die. It was never his intention that we would be separated from him. It is only our sin that resulted in both of these fates.
I watched a show on PBS last night about a man seeking assisted suicide in a country where that is possible. He was no longer the man he had once been. Ravaged by disease, he could not walk or breathe on his own. But more frightening than that, he was uncertain about whether there was life after death or even a God at all. Sin, the door opened by Adam and Eve, the evil that was introduced with their naive rebellion, brought him to that point.
As he left for the final journey towards an uncertain end, he kept telling his wife, 'I'm scared, I'm scared.' At least he was honest. But that is not what God desires. He devised a way so that a banished person does not remain banished from him forever. How hopeless it must be to not see that hand reaching out to us, wanting nothing more than that we throw down our self-sufficiency and run to him. God has devised the way.
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